Why have Republicans become anti-democratic?

“So that while they [the Republican Party] don’t openly say it, or even admit to themselves, they are basically creating a system in which they can’t afford to lose an election.

They can’t afford to be in a position when the Democrats could do to them what the Republicans are doing to the system now by all of the enhanced powers of the presidency. So I think tacitly and by implication, they simply don’t see another presidential election in which they don’t win.”

They’re trying to figure out how they can have elections that do not hold them accountable, that they’re guaranteed to win.” (Fascism? Authoritarianism? Nazi Germany expert assesses Trump’s actions,” The News Tribune)

This quotation is by Scott Walsh, opinion editor of the Idaho Sta

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